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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Public Health Nutr. 2022 Apr 25;25(11):3086–3095. doi: 10.1017/S1368980022000994

TABLE 4:

Model estimates of the associations of school food and drink availability (frequency), the school neighborhood food environment (count of total food outlets within 1 km and 5 km), and their interaction with student BMI (kg/m2)

School food and drink availability1
FV Snacks Soda
Student BMI (kg/m2)
Independent variables β (95% Cl) β (95% Cl) β (95% Cl)
Model 1: 1 km school food environment
 School availability 0.14 (−0.12, 0.41) −0.08 (−0.34, 0.19) 0.10 (−0.43, 0.63)
 All food outlets 0.01(−0.07, 0.10) −0.001 (−0.03, 0.03) −0.002 (−0.03, 0.02)
 School availability *All food outlets −0.002 (−0.01, 0.01) −0.00001 (−0.02, 0.02) −0.01 (−0.03, 0.02)
Model 2: 5 km school food environment
 School availability 0.17 (0.10, 0.44) −0.06 (−0.32, 0.21) 0.14 (−0.39, 0.68)
 All food outlets 0.002 (−0.23, 0.53) 0.0002 (−0.002, 0.002) −0.0001 (−0.002, 0.002)
 School availability *All food outlets −0.0003 (−0.09, 0.03) −0.0002 (−0.001, 0.001) −0.001 (−0.003, 0.001)
1

School availability of the food group corresponding to the outcome variable (e.g., school fruit and vegetable availability with student fruit and vegetable intake frequency). FV availability score ranges from 0 (no fruits, vegetables or 100% fruit juice offered any day) to 6 (fruits, vegetables and 100% fruit juice offered every day); snacks availability score ranges from 0 (no chocolate and candy, salty snacks or sweet snacks offered any day) to 6 (chocolate and candy, salty snacks and sweet snacks offered every day); soda availability score ranges from 0 (no soda offered any day) to 2 (soda offered every day). Snack intake measured at wave 2; all others measured at wave 1 (baseline).

Linear mixed models were used to calculate estimates.

Models adjusted for race/ethnicity (ref=white), parent education (ref=high school or less), family affluence (ref=low affluence), neighborhood land use mix, neighborhood population density, and neighborhood poverty rate.

*

p < 0.05